Combined heel and arch support.



ALE. BLOCK.

COMBINED HEEL AND ARCH SUPPORT. APPLIACATION FILED NOV-25, 1914. Y

15,191,655. Patented July 18 1916.

ALEXANDEP E. BLOCK.

RomusFLuM \npummwnmmwn n c I of the-flap-covered portion of said strucSTATES, PATENT OFFICE ALEX'AWDE'BIEJLOGK, on T. ouis, iiissoimrfCOMBINED HEEL AND 'ARCH svrron'r.

To all whom itmaycm'cern: 1 V 7 Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ,E. BLOCK,

a citizen of the United'States, and a resi-n dent of St. Louis,Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in CombinedHeel and .Arch, Supports,.- of:

which the following is a specificationi My invention relatesto acombined heeland arch-support, and has for its object to provide anadjustable support for the treatment of the .human foot in cases whereboth the heel and the arch are in abnormal condition as the result ofmail-formation,

accident or disease, and is intended'for insertion and use 1n a boot orshoe of ordinary construction.

In the drawings Figure l is an inverted-1f plan view of a structureembodying myIni-J vention, showing a portion of the flap? broken away.Fig. 2 is aperspective V ew ture. Fig; 3 is a' transverse sectional vieof the structure, not inverted, taken on view of the device in section,-taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1. As shown 'in the drawings, I employ aninsole 4, beneath which flaps 5, 6 and 7 are; secured as shown in Fig.3, said flaps being.

secured to the lower face of the'insole-A,

and flaps 6 and being superimposed upon each other and secured alongtheir inner .edges to each other andto the flap 5, their inner edgesbeing in the form of an irregular curve (see Fig. 1) and extending froma point onlthe heel of the insole 4 at or near the median'lineof theinsole, toa' point atv the side of the insole 4 which is in front of.the location of'the longitudinal arch of the 40'- .footof the wearer,{and t the rear of the lineoff .word:

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Specification of getter-s Patent.

'entis 1;; In a heeLandarch-support an insole, a

Pateiited Jul'y-18,1916, 'Aiiplicat'ion filed November 2511914, seriallll'of 873gll i 'a's 'used throughout this description refers to' i thelongitudinalarch of t e human foot.

f The space between the flaps 5 and 6 con-j jstitutes a cavity forthereception of the ir regularly+curved insert 10,- and the spacebetween the flaps '6 and 7 forins a like cavity venience in manufacture;it'ma bef omitted, and the flaps 6 and7 secureddlrectly to the insole 4'without departing from my iilf ,vention. I

what I claim as new and desire to'have se= cured to. meby the grant ofLetters Pat 6.15.

flap secured to'the lower face of the insole point on .the rear edge ofthe insole ator near the median line thereof to a pointtat isiiigly orHaving "thus (described *my invention,

nd forming a .po'clg'et extendingfrom a the side ofytheinsole beneaththe'longitudinal arch of the" wearer agid an insert arranged tofillsaidpocket.

2. In a--* a plurah Io v cured to the lower faceofthe insole and to eachother-to yfor cavitiesof variousv 'lengths, each cavitylextending from apoint at'the rear edge. ofthe insole near the media'nflineof-saidinsoleand extending. toa point beneath the longitudinal arch -of.-the foot ofthe wearerland an insert arranged to be seated i1 ilch'ofsaid cavities.

Commissioner of Patents,

and arch support i a f ap 20f various lengths see?

